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Saturday, May 05, 2018

Sarah Huckabee Sanders - a Woman Devoid of Any Credibility

The list of those who have been willing to destroy their own credibility and integrity is lengthy. A willingness to lie constantly is a prerequisite to any role in the Trump/Pence regime. It began the day after the inauguration when Sean Spicer began lying about the size of the inaugural crowd despite indisputable evidence to the contrary. Since that day, the lies have been non-stop with the Washington Post calculating that Trump himself has lied over 3,000 times. Thus, the question becomes one of what type of person would remain in a job where disseminating lies daily is a requirement of the job? The question is particularly true of those who claim - or at least pretend - to support "Christian values." In my view, if you continue to lie for a morally bankrupt, pathological liar, the reality is that you are as morally bankrupt as the boss. All of which brings me to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, one of the most dishonest women in Washington, D.C. She comes by her dishonesty honestly, one might argue, given her father, Mike Huckabee, another perpetual liar who wraps himself in the cloak of religion. An article in the Washington Post looks at Sanders' position and the derision she justly is receiving. Here are highlights:

The West Wing shouting match was so loud that more than a
dozen staffers heard it. White House press secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders cursed and yelled at White House Counsel Donald McGahn
during the February confrontation, according to two people familiar with the
episode. Misleading statements about the domestic abuse scandal that felled
staff secretary Rob Porter had dragged the administration into a maelstrom of
chaos and contradictory public statements.

Exasperated, Sanders told
McGahn she would not continue to speak for the administration unless she was
provided more information about Porter’s situation.

The dispute, which erupted in a
hallway outside Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin’s office, was resolved after
Sanders received the clarity she sought, the people familiar with the argument
said. Hours later, Sanders returned to her lectern to field queries from a
skeptical press corps, though her answers left reporters with more questions.

Sanders was thrust into an especially
harsh limelight over the past week. She was the subject of an acerbic broadside
about her “bunch of lies” by comedian Michelle Wolf at the White House
Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Then she was forced to explain the
inconsistent accounts from her, President Trump and his new personal lawyer,
Rudolph W. Giuliani, about the hush money paid to adult-film actress Stormy
Daniels. The week was punctuated by an onslaught of commentary about Sanders’s
character.

Sanders is inextricably bound in the
mistruths of the Trump administration. She is a willing warrior for Trump, and
her critics say she should be held accountable for his utterances — from the
untruthful to the racist to the sexist.

“When [Trump] the president blithely admits to
lying, it makes all those who are paid to repeat and defend his stories liars,
as well,” said David Axelrod, who was a senior White House adviser under
President Barack Obama. “Their credibility is tied to his. It’s a high price to
pay for a job, even in the White House.”

By the time she took over as White House
press secretary from Sean Spicer in July, the administration’s penchant for
misleading the public at the president’s direction was well established.

Allies of Sanders say that she often
pushes back on Trump, who wants her to attack the media even harder and more
frequently, and that other administrations have also faced credibility problems,
. . .

Fresh trouble for Sanders arose Wednesday
night, when Giuliani, in a freewheeling interview with Sean Hannity, told the
friendly Fox News host that Trump had reimbursed his longtime personal
attorney, Michael Cohen, for the $130,000 in hush money he paid to Daniels
. . .

Giuliani’s disclosure appeared to be at
odds with Sanders’s repeated insistence that Trump was not aware of Cohen’s
payment to Daniels. The interview, which Sanders did not coordinate, left her
in an untenable position,. . .

Reporters pressed Sanders on Thursday: Was
she a liar or simply in the dark? And why was the president’s personal
attorney authorized to announce news about sensitive hostage negotiations?

Before most briefings, she meets with Trump in the Oval
Office to discuss how he would like her to answer news-of-the-day questions,
White House officials said. The president sometimes dictates lines for her to
read or orders her to use precise words on particularly sensitive matters.

Sanders routinely dodges
questions on hot topics by telling reporters she has not asked the president
about it — a deliberate strategy to avoid having to wade into delicate issues,
according to a Sanders confidant.

I'm sorry, but Sanders is a liar and she knows that she's a liar and it seemingly simply does not matter. If she was a "godly Christian," she'd resign immediately.

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